Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic WorldEighteenth-century antislavery writers attacked the slave trade as "barbaric traffic"--a practice that would corrupt the mien and manners of Anglo-American culture to its core. Less concerned with slavery than with the slave trade in and of itself, these writings expressed a moral uncertainty about the nature of commercial capitalism. This is the argument Philip Gould advances in Barbaric Traffic. A major work of cultural criticism, the book constitutes a rethinking of the fundamental agenda of antislavery writing from pre-revolutionary America to the end of the British and American slave trades in 1808. |
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... Historical Society of Pennsylvania , the Library Company of Philadelphia , and the Newberry Library in Chicago . Like most scholars , I also benefited from informal conversations and the exchange of work . This field of inspiration , so ...
... historical period between the rise of antislavery move- ments in the 1770s in Britain and America , and the abolition of the slave trade there in 1807-08 . I intend to analyze late eighteenth - century litera- ture against the slave ...
... historical accuracy of the Williams thesis , but it also has left in place its essential premise . " Few historians ... historical and ide- ological role of capitalism in facilitating the growth of antislavery move- ments . Yet they ...
... historical discourse of man- ners.16 This term , as J. G. A. Pocock pointed out long ago , was central to the rise of " commercial humanism " in early modern European societies and emphasized the civilizing effects of the trade ...
... historical theory prevalent in the eighteenth century , each society naturally progressed from nomadic / hunting to agriculture to commerce , and eventually fell into cul- tural decline . Within this schema , commerce initially ...
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Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century ... Philip Gould Limited preview - 2003 |